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Best CPU for gaming in 2026: These are the chips I recommend for gaming, productivity, and peace of mind

By Jacob Ridley Last updated

Happy Cores Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters.

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 7 2750K Plus processor, resting against a colorful, Intel-branded box
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 89% Arrow Lake's redemption is here at last.

Score: 89%
A photograph of Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus processor, placed on an Intel-branded display box
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 87% The dark horse of Arrow Lake: Ultra 7 class performance for an Ultra 3 class price tag.

Score: 87%
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor
Amazon US sold nearly half the number of CPUs it did this time last year

By James Bentley Published

News That's the memory crisis for you…

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Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus
Intel adds mobile chips to its updated Arrow Lake 'Plus' family with 8% more gaming performance despite no changes to core counts or their clock speeds

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Is it all about Intel's new performance BOT?

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor surrounded by DDR5 memory sticks from Corsair, Kingston, and Lexar
New report claims CPUs are next in line for a chip shortage but there's little evidence of that right now

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Are CPUs headed in the same direction as GPUs, RAM and SSDs?

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Jensen Huang discusses the Vera CPU
Nvidia's new Vera CPU has been designed for 'extremely high' single-core performance, but it's not coming to the PC for now

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Dare we hope that those Olympus cores turn up in a future PC chip?

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor
Intel announces Arrow Lake 'Plus' desktop chips with more cores and clocks for less cash—and IPC-boosting 'BOT' tool

By Jeremy Laird Published

News As refreshes go, this isn't actually half bad.

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A photograph of an Intel Core i7 14700K processor resting against an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition graphics card
Nvidia will announce an x86 CPU in collaboration with Intel at its GTC event, according to one report, though Intel itself shoots down the whole idea

By Nick Evanson Published

News It would be an extraordinarily quick turnaround, given that their joint venture only started last year.

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Panther Lake
Intel bigs up its latest 18A chip node as fit for external customers but probably not Nvidia, for now

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Intel CPUs living with Nvidia GPUs.

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